Fergus Falls, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,360 ft 415 m1,300 ft 395 m1,270 ft 385 m1,210 ft 370 m1,150 ft 350 m1,120 ft 340 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fergus Falls sits at about 1,230 ft (375 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,230 ft 375 m
most residents: 1,190–1,270 ft
Lowest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the west side
Highest
1,360 ft 415 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,230 ft 375 m
all land inside city limits
Fergus Falls spans about 240 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fergus Falls | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Airport (FFM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,182 ft360 m |
| Average of all land | 1,230 ft375 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 14,258 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.2 sq mi + 1.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 940 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.2830° N, 96.0776° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Otter Tail River → Red River → Canada
- Airport
- Fergus Falls Regional (FFM) 1,182 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 56537
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Underwood1,340 ft
- Dane Prairie Township1,280 ft
- Elizabeth Township1,280 ft
- Aurdal Township1,280 ft
- Elizabeth1,260 ft
- Fergus Falls Township1,250 ft
- Fergus Falls1,230 ft
- Buse Township1,180 ft
- Carlisle Township1,170 ft
- Aastad Township1,160 ft
- Orwell Township1,100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota1,068th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Otter Tail County76th highest of 82
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.